I was running Entity Framework Profiler on one of my projects using EF5 and came across several queries that were using SELECT TOP (2) and was wondering why that was happening. There were two different reasons I came across. Reason 1: When using Linq SingleOrDefault it will check to see if 2 results are returned so an exception can be thrown. This is ......

This morning I took the 70-480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 exam and passed with a 900. I figured since there was a free voucher for the exam I might as well try. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/le... and get the voucher before March 2013 and before they run out. This counts for the first test of the MCSD: ......

I have been beating my head against the desk the last day and a half trying to figure out how to access a UI controls method from an MVVM View Model. I am using the DevComponents AdvGrid control and the users wanted to have a totals summary row at the bottom of the grid. I didn’t see in the documentation that this was something supported out of the ......

I know it has been a couple months since I first wrote part 1 of building a repository pattern with an EF model, but here we are. I am finally getting around to writing part 2. If you remember, in part 1 I talked about creating an EF model (EDMX) connected to an existing SQL server database and mapping the stored procedures to the entities and creating ......

I am part of a year long plus project that is re-writing an existing application for a client. We have decided to develop the project using Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5. The project will be using a number of technologies and patterns to include Entity Framework 5, WCF Services, and WPF for the client UI.This is my attempt at documenting some of the ......